To restate my view on the BBCiplayer plugin test version. 1. If you set it up to use HLS as main format - then no difference from current plugin as it is just a bundling of patches and changing menu.opml URL t 2. DASH is currently a beta test for BBC and you can set your brower based player to use HTML5 which includes using DASH see http://www.bbc.co.uk/html5 Beta also means BBC may or may not have deployed/contracted adequate resources to supports lots of users playing DASH formats. 3. There is no contact between BBC and myself. I believe info on DASH related URLs etc and probably other support technical info have been distributed to equipment manufacturers/ vendors to have an orderly changeover. 4. AFAICT Problems with DASH (and probably HLS) are region dependent - probably due to the CDNs. I am not in UK and I have noted problems (which could stop a program playing) with DASH at least once per hour during busy periods. I believe these problems are load dependent since they didn't happen over christmas break but occurred during workdays before Christmas and reappeared after New Year. 5. There is a problem which shows up with some Window based LMS servers with players that do not support native AAC and some configurations of Castbridge Chromecast.
Separately - the BBCiPlayerExtra will stop working (some aspects are already broken) as BBC continually change the underpinings of BBC iPlayer web and app players and retire the interfaces the BBCiPlayerExtra uses. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103158 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
